As the nation celebrates Independence Day on July 4, it’s worth noting that not only has Yale been a university longer than the United States has been a country — by a full 75 years — but also that many of its alumni played an integral role in its...
Davis Tutt shouldn’t have taken Wild Bill’s watch.Postcard of James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok, by the Arthur Jaff Heliochrome Co. in New York; published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book...
On Aug. 6, 1945, an atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima, destroying the city and killing tens of thousands of people. Three days later, a second bomb exploded over Nagasaki.In the months that followed this first-ever nuclear attack, Americans sought to...
The first Republican presidential debate is already over. The media is churning out a daily cycle of campaign coverage. The candidates are busy stumping even though the nearest primary is in February.
As voters learn about the presidential hopefuls, the...
A new exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) will consider the impact of population growth and resource consumption by examining the entire world as a single urban entity. On view Sept. 3 through Nov. 14, “City of 7 Billion: A Constructed...